Afternoon
everyone,
Thanks to all
of you who came out to see Richard Dawson last week, hope you all enjoyed it as
much as we did, what an epic performance in every sense! Our next event takes
place this Friday evening in Kilburn at the Tin Tabernacle and will witness a
true evocation of guitar greatness courtesy of SIR RICHARD BISHOP from Sun City Girls, accompanied by his antique
‘C. Bruno’ acoustic this promises to be a rare occurrence indeed. Joining him
at this very special concert in the corrugated iron church / Sea Cadets HQ will
be London duo MARKERS, lending some
tonal shade and electric nuances to proceedings. We will be running a bar at
the event, expect live music to commence from 7.30pm, plus there will be
selected tickets available on the door from 7pm.
After a well-deserved
weekend we’ll return to Power Lunches for a Bank Holiday Monday matinee show
celebrating the release of MONOTONY’s
colossal split 7” with SAUNA YOUTH,
which came out this week! Helping to get your head rushing we have THE WORMS and DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST both playing too. It’s looking like the show
will run between 2pm and 6pm, and again tickets will be available on the door
for but £5!
Full
write-ups on both shows follow, in addition here’s a playlist of new Upset The
Rhythm releases to act as your sounding board, there’s tracks from the
aforementioned split 7” of primal punk and something brand new by Portugal’s
Pega Monstro. Just click on the headless horseman. Thank you!
\\\\\ FRIDAY
22 MAY /////
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
MARKERS
Friday 22 May
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313250
Friday 22 May
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313250
SIR RICHARD BISHOP is an experimental guitarist whose
improvisations and compositions often reflect the shadow worlds of India, the
Middle East, North Africa, and other points along the Gypsy trail. Bishop is
perhaps best known as a founding member (along with brother Alan Bishop) of
experimental ethnic-improv pioneers and underground tricksters Sun City Girls,
who for nearly 30 years have produced an extensive discography of over 50 full
length albums, 20 one-hour cassettes and a dozen 7” records. Bishop’s first
official solo record, ‘Salvador Kali’, was released by John Fahey’s esteemed
Revenant Records label in 1998. The album showcases Bishop's own particular
obsessions and roots, drawing from a variety of worldwide sources. Locust Music
issued his widely praised second record, ‘Improvika’ in 2004. This album
consists of nine extemporaneous pieces for solo acoustic guitar and led to
Bishop performing live as a solo artist, playing throughout Europe, Australia
and the United States, over the successive years touring extensively with
Bonnie Prince Billy, Earth, Animal Collective and Bill Callahan, amongst many
others. Throughout the previous decade Bishop has excelled himself with
numerous self-releases alongside major works on Locust and Drag City, who
released Bishop’s most recent album, ’Tangier Sessions’, earlier this year.
The conceit
of Bishop's new album, Tangier Sessions, is based in some serious guitar lore
that would make any bedroom noodler salivate. While in Switzerland last year,
Bishop stumbled into a hole-in-the-wall luthier's shop. Failing to find
anything to suit his purposes, he went to leave, but he was stopped by the
owner on his way out, who reached behind a cabinet and pulled out a very old,
remarkable guitar of unknown provenance. The only distinguishing mark on the
guitar was a tiny sticker inside which read "C. Bruno". Entranced by
its sound and mystery, but intimidated by its price, Bishop came and went
several times before finally caving and buying the guitar. Soon after this, he
found himself holed up for a week at an apartment in Tangier, Morocco, playing
the guitar furiously all day, improvising and recording at night. Tangier Sessions
is the result of these frenzied efforts. Stylistically, the album evokes
Morocco as a hub of cultural exchange. Bishop often explores the Andalusian
flamenco guitar style, infusing it with gestures from across the country’s
other borders. In the seductive, cyclical crocheting of "Mirage",
there’s traces of the Mali-centered "desert blues," a style sometimes
considered to have inspired the American blues, but which now, in contemporary
practice, re-emulates it. Elsewhere, Bishop’s haunting melodies recall the
sound of the oud, a popular lute-like instrument in North Africa, as well as in
the Middle East and Greece. This rare solo performance sees Bishop performing
with his ‘C. Bruno’ guitar in a wonderful grade II listed Victorian church in
the heart of Kilburn. The Tin Tabernacle is constructed out of galvanised
corrugated iron and its interior was remodeled in the 1940’s to house the Sea
Cadets and their cultural centre.
MARKERS are a guitar duo from London comprising of Jason
Carty and Jodie Cox. Collectively, their musical history has seen them as
founding members and collaborators with the likes of Narrows, Geiger Counter,
Foe, Exes, Rohame, Art of Burning Water and Earth. However, this project
is something different. Creating music without voice or rhythm section
leaves them very exposed, focusing attention on how each note is wrung or
coaxed for optimum emotional expression, and relying heavily on tone, dexterity
and structuring. Whilst a review of early guitar influences has bled
into their sound, there is an obvious nod to cinema and the effect music has on
steering images with sweetness, patience and intensity, both on the screen and
in the mind’s eye.
\\\\\ BANK
HOLIDAY MONDAY /////
MONOTONY // 7” Launch //
THE WORMS
DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST
Monday 25 May
(Bank Holiday Matinee)
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Haggerston, E8 4AE
2pm – 6pm |
£5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317784
MONOTONY are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. 'Weird' is a meaningless platitude, and 'art punk' is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Celebrating the release of a split 7” on Upset The Rhythm with their sister band Sauna Youth, Monotony are set to detonate the basement of Power Lunches with their head-first primal punk. "Acquisitions, no ambition. Jumping off the balcony," they intone over the swaggering rhythm over their new song ‘Luxury Flats’. In the song, Monotony come face to face with Ballard's high-rise nightmare set upon rapidly gentrifying London out of all reason. The second track on the 7”, "Human Troll," is a boldly brash track lodged with sloping riffs and hollered vocals. "Human Troll lives in the river, cement mattress making him shiver!”. Monotony also have some forthcoming releases on Faux Discx and 80/81 Records, so keep your ears open for those too!
https://monotonymonotonymonotony.bandcamp.com/releases
THE WORMS are a guitar-n-drums London duo consisting of one Cold Puma and one Omi Palone. Describing themselves as “petty prannies proffering pithy punk produce”, there’s a straight forward, bare-bones immediacy to their solid stop/start missives.
https://soundcloud.com/the_worms-1
DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST formed at the end of the crap year of 2014. Approaching their songs as raw statements vs intricately genius jokes, Das Boots throw some conversationally direct lyrics on top of a great pile of spindly guitar lines and bombastic drummage. Their music is a bit like punk, post punk, rockabilly, and classic rock. They often play the bits wrong and then scream because it all gets a bit you know. They write a new song during every rehearsal and then discard it because it sounds too much like a song by one of their friend’s bands. Sometimes one song that only vaguely sounds like something else slips through the net and that’s how they built their set up.
https://soundcloud.com/dasbootsthechemist
Remember next
week we also have THE JULIE RUIN, ROSE MCDOWALL and PROLAPSE all playing in London too, no rest for the wicked! Hoping
you have the best of weeks, see you on Friday!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
MARKERS
Friday 22 May
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313250
Friday 22 May
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313250
MONOTONY // 7” Launch //
THE WORMS
DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST
Monday 25 May
(Bank Holiday Matinee)
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Haggerston, E8 4AE
THE JULIE RUIN
WOOLF
FEATURE
Tuesday 26
May
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, Camden, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | £12
| SOLD OUT
ROSE MCDOWALL
THE WHARVES
Thursday 28
May
St Pancras
Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
PROLAPSE
ART TRIP AND THE STATIC SOUND
Friday 29 May
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10
| SOLD OUT
PROLAPSE
THE WOLFHOUNDS
Saturday 30
May
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10
| SOLD OUT
MIKAL CRONIN
DIGNAN PORCH
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
SAUNA
YOUTH // Album launch //
RICHARD
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
PRIMETIME
RATTLE
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317117
NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9
June
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
AUSMUTEANTS
THE
CONNECTORS
Wednesday 10 June
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8
2EB
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/316346
LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11
June
Electrowerkz,
7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ
DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16
June
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/312457
ARIEL PINK
HARRY MERRY
Wednesday 17 June
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £17 | SOLD OUT
REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
THE CASTILLIANS
Monday 22
June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308293
VEXX
HUMAN FORM
VERTICAL SLUMP
Wednesday 1 July
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
DEERHOOF
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
DOPE BODY
USA NAILS
Wednesday
16 September
Old
Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm
| £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
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